IOM Report Calling For Medical Education Reform

"The government spends about $15 billion every year on physician training programs that a panel of highly respected medical experts says may not actually be producing quality doctors. The Institute of Medicine (IOM) issued areportthis week concluding that the current system is failing and must be reformed."

They have made an interesting point and think of nations like ours (India) where we just copied the medical education system of the west, and with no metrics on how well the Doctors are being trained and are they actually justifying the public money spent on training. But this calls for strong and paradigm shift decision making. When we were training we always felt that the system was way too much theoretical and we lacked actual practical skills required out of the physician at the time of passing out.

About Dr. Sumer Sethi

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Unique blend of academic excellence and entrepreneurship, heading leading firms in India- Teleradiology Providers, pioneering company providing teleradiology services and DAMS (Delhi Academy of Medical Sciences) Premier test preparation institute in India for MD/MS/MCI preparation. He has also been an invited faculty member at various conferences, including Teleradiology in IRIA 2008 and 2011, Hospital Build Middle East, Congress of the Brain Tumor Radiology in Neuro-oncology Society. Dr. Sethi is Editor-in-Chief of Internet Journal of Radiology. He has a keen interest in Web 2.0 technologies and in maintaining his famous radiology blog, which has been featured in multiple international journals.